Dear Steemit Friends,
Thank you 
The theme of the challenge is to create a card for my teacher. I have many great teachers and mentors in my life and since the challenge is for 'a teacher', I want to dedicate this card to 
When I came into Steemit platform 3 weeks ago, I didn't know anyone at all. Since my Blog is about 'traveling', I came to know many Steemit travelers. Sweetsssj posts always appear at the top of the pages, and since I will be going off to Dubai and Turkey at the end of the month, I was very eager to follow her Turkey travels. Her presentation was so captivating that I finally got in touch with her to ask her if she could take a look at my blog.
Within a minute, she wrote back to me & asked me for my 'url' link. She gave me some very good advice and became my mentor in the few minutes that we chatted. I am forever grateful that she really took the time to guide me and gave me specific instructions. We all know how busy she is these days but she was so willing to give her time at no cost. I am forever grateful. From thereon, she became my Steemit Blogger Teacher!
For Steemit newbies, the following 4 points are what she gave me in our chat in summary form. I want to share these blogging gems with you.:
- Formatting (Bolds, Headers, Italics, Sections, Alignment)
- Quality of Pictures (Clarity, colour, composition)
- Flow of the post (Story board with supplementary narrative to help bolster the information in the pictures)
- Personality (Add your experience, angle, and why it's special to you)
Why I chose Penguins for the drawing challenge?
- I chose penguins because they are rare and funny.
- Penguins also move in groups and are not loners. So as steemit bloggers, we must not move alone. We need to interact with Steemit community.
- For the first 2 weeks, I was alone by myself and lost in this steemboat. If you find that you are in that situation, read other people's blogs and interact with them like I do.
Look at me. The little penguin guy is me.
I am wavering and trying to walk on ice step-by-step to move along with confidence. Doesn't this look like a lot of us Steemit newbies who came on board in August? It is a good thing we have many Steemit veterans ahead of us. This is only my 3rd week here and am loving this Steemit community interaction.
Basic Material for the Drawing
- Different brush tip color pens. You don't need a lot but just enough to mix and match.
- I chose these colors: red, green, purple, yellow and blue.
- I didn't want to use black for the penguins so I substituted it with purple and blue to make the penguins more delightful to look at.
- One water brush
The Procedure of the Drawing
Step 1: Sketch a basic outline of the picture
Step 2: Use Different Color Brush Pens to Write the words.
I used cursive calligraphy writing to make the words more personal so that it looks as if I am writing this in a real card.
Step 3: Use Blue Tip Brush to outline the 2 Penguins
Step 4: Spend more time to work on the Penguins to make them look fun and unique to you.
It took me an hour to work on all the details and to decide what colors to use for the body and feet to make them stand out.
Step 5: Use Purple Tip Brush and Water brush to color the side of the Penguin
Step 6: Use Blue Ink and water brush in water to create a blue ice platform for the penguins to walk on
Step 7: Final step to finish the drawing - Use Blue Ink to color the Steem Logo and Steem 
Step 8: Use Water Brush to create shadows to your username 
Step 9: Erase all the pencil marks! Voila - the Final Product.
Shhhh...... can Steemians here spot the mistake of the Steemit logo color. I am new so I have mixed the blue shades?
That's it Steemians!
It takes 6 hours for me to finish the entire drawing.
It takes me 4 hours to do this blog post as I needed to choose and adjust the 60 photo jpg that I took in the process.
Hope you enjoyed reading the process that goes through in creating a thank you card.
Hope you also join
If you like this post, please upvote, resteem and comment below,
Rosa
亲爱的Steemit朋友，
@Helene 挑战的主题是为我的老师造一张卡片。我的生活中有多位好老师和导师，由於挑战是“老师”，我想为
对於Steemit的新手，以下4点是我在聊天
1. 格式化（粗体，标题，斜体，章节，对齐）
2. 图片质量（清晰度，颜色，构图）
3. 帖子的动感（故事板与补充叙述，以帮助加强图片中的信息）
4. 个性（添加你的经验，角度，为什麽它是特别的）
我很感激能跟随一位Blogger老师，我从阅读博客文章中学到了很多东西。我和大家分享她的秘诀，让我们都能一起学习。
手绘的基本材料：
•水彩笔。你不需要很多，但足够混合搭配。
•我选择了这些颜色：红色，绿色，紫色，黄色和蓝色毛笔头水彩笔。
•我不想为企鹅使用黑色，太沈实了，所以我用紫色和蓝色代替，使企鹅看起来更加愉快。
•一个水刷
手绘程序：
步骤1：绘制图片的基本概念。
步骤2：使用不同的彩色笔笔写字。
步骤3：使用蓝色提示画笔勾画2只企鹅
步骤4：花更多的时间在企鹅上工作，让他们看起来很有趣和独特。
步骤5：使用紫色尖头和水笔涂抹企鹅的一面
步骤6：使用蓝色墨水和水笔在水中创建一个蓝色的冰平台供企鹅走路。
步骤7：完成绘图的最後一步 - 使用蓝色墨水对Steemit徽标和
步骤8：用水彩笔为您的名字加上阴影
步骤9：擦掉所有的铅笔痕迹！ 哇 - 最终作品出来了！
希望你喜欢阅读这个画卡的过程。
希望你也加入@ helene 的挑战，并为你的老师画一张卡。
如果你喜欢这个帖子，请投upvote，resteem和评论，
Rosa